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PH fishers play 'hide-and seek' with sino ships in Scarborough
For fishermen whose livelihood depends on the bounty of Scarborough Shoal, any attempt to enter its lagoon is still a “perilous” move while China’s Coast Guard continues to patrol the area. But the Philippine Coast Guard ...
- March 29, 2022
Gov’t ban on destructive fishing methods starts
Since April 15, commercial fishing boat captain Arnel Perante and his 25-member crew have been idle in their boat docked on Pantal River here. Some of them tinkered with their fishing nets, sewing the portions that were ...
- April 29, 2014
US to compensate PH for damage to Tubbataha Reefs
The US government has apologized and pledged to provide “appropriate compensation” to the Philippines for the damage caused by the grounding of a US warship at the protected Tubbataha Reefs in the Sulu Sea. The US compensation ...
- February 5, 2013
Mayor vows to lead dev't takeoff of town
Mayor Rommel Arnado emphasizes the significance of “an accurate navigational plan” from which to steer his town toward progress. Success would need a firm determination to undertake the journey, no matter what it costs, ...
- August 22, 2010
The business of fixing Lingayen Gulf
Alaska is a remote coastal village of Aringay, La Union, where blast fishing used to be the main occupation of its residents. In this village, some fishermen used to manufacture improvised dynamite sticks that they used ...
- February 6, 2013
Watch how we fish
You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” goes a popular saying in management circles. For our country’s fisheries, this can be a particularly dangerous thing. There is growing recognition that the “blue economy” — the ...
- March 30, 2021
No letup in fish pen demolition
A government team on Tuesday demolished two fish pens covering a total area of 70 hectares in Laguna de Bay as a new deadline for operators to harvest their stock and remove their structures from the lake looms. Joined by ...
- February 15, 2017
Reclamation plan worries Navotas fisherfolk
Around 100 members of Navotas City’s fishing community took to the water on Tuesday in protest against a 650-hectare reclamation project on Manila Bay, which they said would displace around 20,000 people. Setting off on ...
- October 18, 2017
DFA: China gives 'no-build' assurance in sea row talks
China has assured the Philippines that it would refrain from conducting any activities on uninhabited areas in the West Philippine Sea, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday. Cayetano said the country had ...
- February 17, 2018
Fishers’ group hits ‘blanket order’ to demolish Laguna de Bay structures
The Alyansa ng mga Pederasyong Kumikilos sa Lawa ng Laguna posed the question as it called for the suspension of the moratorium on aquaculture being imposed by the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA). The group ...
- February 19, 2017